"The Wonders of Immortality" is actually a new deconstruction of love by "old man" Wang Shuo.
I feel that I have not seen Wang Shuo's works for many years, and the last time I was shocked by him, it was still the two books of "My Chitose Cold" and "Book to My Daughter", the former breaking through the expression of words to make people feel worshipful, but the inner vibration came more from the latter, his perception of the world and the infinite churning tenderness of the sea of thoughts and hearts. Therefore, the process of watching "The Wonder of Immortality" is full of emotions and feelings.
The film tells a story from the 60s to the present to the future, spanning a long period of time, Guo Xiaolu, played by Wang Chuanjun, and Su Lingfang, played by Wang Luodan, from childhood to twilight, not only witnessed the living conditions of the characters at each time node, but also expounded their understanding of love and life and death through the emotional changes of the male protagonist and the two women.
In this film, Wang Shuo carefully divides the establishment of feelings between people in different time states, the turbulent childhood, the embarrassed youth, the middle age of career bottlenecks, and the old age when the memory no longer exists... Those who seem to be unwilling, uneasy, unwilling, and not abandoned are actually all the appearance of love, "not old" is not a vision, but people suddenly feel old, just like those young bridges have deep resonance, but also can deeply understand his willingness to grow old and can not grow old entanglement.
And the love in the story is easier to interact with the audience, and only Wang Shuo's old spicy can give the audience seemingly absurd but incomparably sharp and painful love, Guo Xiaolu and Su Lingfang in the film have been missing, childhood because the family has to be separated, it is youth, and in order to make a living, you can only watch the deeply loved woman tossing and turning between different men, it is really desperate to fine.
Especially for the setting of Su Lingfang's character's life history, a dragon set actor who has nothing and is bent on finding opportunities, it can be seen that Wang Shuo has made a cruel hand to the entertainment circle this time, using such a character to pierce the dirt and darkness behind the bright and beautiful - relying on the matter of physical superiority reflects too many people. And Wang Luodan finally had an impressive role after Millais, the woman who walked in the dirty land, beautiful, free, wanton, and finally walked through the mud and blossomed into brilliant flowers.
In addition to sharp and painful love, many paragraphs also lose Wang Shuo's habitual humor, many classic lines in the film still flash with humor and wisdom, Wang Xiaomo, played by Wang Xiaokun, has a good interpretation of this kind of and agility, arrogant and broken mouth is sometimes instigated, chicken thief but not losing righteousness, like Wang Shuo himself, a one-sided, and not good at words and deeply rooted Guo Xiaolu is his other side, there is a plot in the film, Guo Xiaolu was kicked off the bus, forgetting which book Wang Shuo wrote, He was kicked off the bus by someone, and he was that kind of character.
Therefore, this movie can also be seen as Wang Shuo's letter to the audience, he talks to time, looks back at the growth years, love trajectory, and also outlines the fantasy of "immortality", and finally redefines the relationship between people and time with science fiction-like immortality, and also deconstructs love and life and death. "Immortality" does not defeat time, but unforgotten love can become eternal.
Wang Shuo's love is always young.